Cao Fang

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Early experience

Cao Fang grew up in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, where the Han nationality is a minority, and Dai children are her childhood playmates. Her parents' education was unrestrained. Since then, Cao Fang has formed a free and unrestrained personality. After only three days in kindergarten, Cao Fang went to primary school. As a child, she came into contact with the primitive folk songs of ethnic minorities. Later, he came into contact with the most cutting-edge and avant-garde music.

Cao Fang was an obedient child when he was a child, but his ideas were always a little different. For example, when he painted the sky, he would not necessarily use blue, but would open his imagination infinitely. Later, whenever she thought of a picture, she would habitually turn it into sound and write it in the form of songs, and use music to compose the picture in her heart.

In the early 1990s, my father bought back the coffee pot and would keep on reciting vinyl records at home on business trips. Her education is westernized and independent. When I was in the fourth grade of primary school, I broke my hand bone and asked for leave from my teacher like nothing happened. I went to the hospital alone and called my father at the door. When she was 13 years old, she had her first motorcycle. Every day she wore a pair of leather pants and rode to school. In 1996, he went to Kunming to study and began to participate in band performances.

In 1999, Cao Fang was admitted to Southwest University for Nationalities as an English major. During her time in school, she formed her own band, participated in singing competitions many times and won prizes. In 2000, with his first song "sunset love song", he participated in the first national college original music competition of Xingwang, and was nominated for the best combination award and the best lyrics award. Because she didn't like the school environment since middle school, under the pressure of her family, she dropped out of school in the first semester of her sophomore year and came to Beijing to work as a recording assistant for Xiao Ke. However, Cao Fang, who once wanted to be a diplomat, translator or tour guide, mistakenly entered the music circle.

Acting experience

In 2002, he wrote the song "fading" for the psychic band, which is the interlude of the film "17-year-old sky". In 2003, he signed Xiao Ke as the music director's "titanium culture". In September, he released his first solo album "black perfume", which included 12 songs including "transparent dialogue" and "spring flower autumn opening", and officially entered the performing arts circle. Her name was written as "Cao Fang" because of the company's clerical error. The album was named "mainland China" in December 2004 by the Beijing News. In the same year, she participated in the "shunshuang pioneer music line" tour of colleges and universities in 12 major cities in China; in addition, she also wrote lyrics for Jin Haixin's song "this moment and that moment".

In 2004, she composed three songs for win group's music album everything as new, such as happy idea and wild plants. In July, she attended the "art show of Beijing University Students' Union to send off the graduates of 2004" and acted as a guest performer. In December, she was named the rookie of the year award of Asia Pacific Music list. In addition, she also won the first personal music album "a" for an Youqi Angela Angela created songs like love is like a breeze and dreams.

In 2005, he wrote the song "Frog Princess" for Zhang Hanyun's first personal music album "I'm very Zhang Hanyun"; on June 3, he released his personal single "tick"; in October, he joined the music brand "chuangmeng ti you" established by chuangmeng music and ti you culture; on December 18, he released his second personal music album "meet me", including the main songs of the same name "meet me" and "wind blow" "A rainy day" and other 11 songs not only covered all the songs of the album, but also served as the music producer of the album for the first time. The album won the best record award of the year of MusicRadio in mainland China.

In February 2006, he won five nominations for the best singer, best producer, best song, best composition and best arrangement in the 6th Pepsi music charts. On April 20, the song "want to sing me to you" with Lao Lang, Xiao Ke and Wang Zheng was released and included in Wang Zheng's personal music album "we are all good children".

On July 26, 2007, her song "love animal" was released and included in the music collection "Twelve beauties of all living beings". She is also the only female singer in mainland China who participated in the recording of the record. In August, she set up a "Daban music studio" on her own. On November 10, she launched her first personal Music EP "farther than the sky", which includes "the smallest sea", "the smallest sea", "the smallest sea", "the smallest sea" and "the smallest sea"《 The EP is limited to 5000 copies of five songs including "the saxophone in the late summer".

On March 22, 2008, she released her single "living in spring"; at the same time, she also held a concert "living in spring" in Beijing, which was her first special performance since she joined the industry in 2003; on April 8, she won the best singer of the year award in the 8th music storm list in the mainland, while the song "far away from the sky" won the best composition Award; in July, she won the solo award in the University Music Festival In October, he took part in the theme photography exhibition of "Xu Wei · story · we" and produced his own photographic work "travel"; on December 2, he was a guest of the special program of the sixth anniversary of "the sound of music" of the Central People's radio.

In January 2009, he took part in Singapore Chinese Art Festival and held a special performance; on May 2, he took part in strawberry Music Festival; on May 15, he took part in funfair Music Festival held in Beijing; on November 11, he released his third personal music album "hum a song and wait for sunset", which included 11 songs including "waiting for people", "I'm serious" and so on; on December 5, he became Qin Hailu's personal music specialist In addition, she was awarded the title of "city hero" at the "city hero ceremony" held on the 40th anniversary of the global publication of time out magazine.

In April 2010, with her album "hum a song and wait for sunset" and song "door", she was shortlisted for the best songwriter of the year award and best lyric award of the mainland in MusicRadio China top list respectively. At the same time, she was nominated for the best Mandarin Female Singer Award of the 10th Chinese Music Media Award. On May 4, she participated in the "China song list red may Music Festival" held in Beijing. On May 9, she tweeted The first personal concept single "Nanlan Zhang" was released, which broke the inherent style of urban folk songs, added folk music elements, won the champion of a website's music sales list, the champion of many national radio stations, and the Golden Melody Award of the second quarter of 2010 in China's song ranking list. Later, the documentary "Nanlan Zhang" was released, which was the first film produced by Daban music studio On May 22, she took part in the outdoor concert of "music aichaduier"; in the same year, she held a five city tour of "goodbye, summer"; on September 2, she won the best folk artist award of the Chinese Golden Melody Award, while her album "hum a song and wait for sunset" won the top ten Record Awards of the year; on November 7, she took part in the Nanchang Station of the "Chinese song ranking" Gala; in addition, she also won the award for Zhao Wei The composition of the song "jiangchengzi" is included in Zhao Wei's personal music album "we are all big directors".

On January 6, 2011, his song "shadow" was released, which was sung by Wang Zheng and included in Wang Zheng's personal music album "Dunwu"; on April 23, he participated in the "Modern Sky folk poetry festival" held in Zhouzhuang; on June 6, he participated in the "love · music Festival" held in Beijing. On March 6, 2012, the second personal Music EP "shallow rainbow" was released, including five songs including "sad traveler" and "honey fruit tree". In addition to the limited release of 7777 physical records, the app download was also launched for a fee. Afterwards, the "Cao Fang shallow rainbow Live Tour" tour was held. On October 26, the song "change a place to live" was composed for Huang Yali Released and included in Huang Yali's personal album annual rings.

In March 2013, he was selected as China's best singer songwriter and best producer in mainland China's MusicRadio TOP list, while EP "shallow rainbow" was selected as the mainland's best record award. In August 25th, he attended the Changyang Music Festival; in September 20th, she joined the Shanghai Jazz Festival; in November 3rd, the "black perfume" 10th anniversary concert was held in Beijing, which was her first unplug. It's a show.

On May 18, 2014, he participated in Xi'an strawberry Music Festival and sang songs such as "meet me", "rainy day blown by the wind"; in June, he participated in Kunming Lebao Green Music Festival; on December 28, he launched a personal cover single "clove", which was included in the 20-year Tribute Collection of Red Star Music "Red Star 20".

In May 2015, she released the documentary "natural growth to life"; on October 26, she released her fourth personal music album "wanderlust · vagabond", which included 11 songs including "rain rainbow", "when the world is only camel", etc., which was the first time that her works were released simultaneously in Taiwan and Mainland China; after that, she held a national tour of "wanderlust vagabond" Happy club.

On January 21, 2016, he won the annual musician Award (pop category) of the 5th abilu Music Award; on September 6, his song "one person, one journey" was released, which was sung by Ma Tianyu and included in Ma Tianyu's personal digital EP "hand flower".

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